Jurnee Smollett maintains her brother Jussie Smollett’s innocence following last year’s alleged hate-crime hoax. Jurnee, 33, sits down with The Hollywood Reporter and agrees to speak publicly for the first time on 38-year-old Jussie’s scandal in which the “Empire” star was involved in an alleged hate crime, which he was later accused of staging.
RELATED: Jussie Smollett Pleads Not Guilty To Restored Charges “It’s been f**king painful,” Jurnee says. “One of the most painful things my family’s ever experienced — to love someone as much as we love my brother, and to watch someone who you love that much go through something like this, that is so public, has been devastating. “I was already in a very dark space for a number of reasons, and I’ve
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